Training Camp For Hired Assassins Destroyed In Teuchitlán, Jalisco

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This article was translated and reposted from EL OCCIDENTAL

In the last 7 years, at least 10 sites that have been used for criminal training of young people have been dismantled.

Elizabeth Ibal / El Occidental

Jalisco is the main stronghold of the New Generation Cartel, which is constantly recruiting mainly young people to take them to drug camps or schools to prepare them as assassins. Recently one was secured in the community of La Estanzuela, in the municipality of Teuchitlán. It was a fenced ranch where implements for the training of future gunmen of this criminal group were detected.

In the last 7 years, at least 10 criminal training camps have been detected and dismantled in Jalisco. The most recent one that was secured is located in the town of La Estanzuela, in the municipality of Teuchitlán; it is a huge fenced property. The main gate has a black gate with the legend Zacuirre Ranch, with two horses painted in the center and some cracks also painted on it.

Inside there was a small building where two silver family vehicles were located, weapons were also found and 10 people were arrested, presumably members of the Jalisco Cartel - New Generation, who were in charge of taking care of the people they had under training. The body of a person was also found, wrapped, ready to be abandoned.

The president of the Supreme Court of Justice of Jalisco, Daniel Espinosa Licón, said: “(It was) a camp that was fully equipped to recruit people and recruit them to give them training, almost almost military training, and co-opt them or recruit them into organized crime. The 10 people were taking care of them, they were training them, and so they all have the same relationship in the issue of forced disappearance and homicide”.

Hector Flores, co-founder of the collective Luz de Esperanza AC, assures that after the disappearance of his son Hector Daniel Flores Fernandez, he began investigations on his own and realized that he was taken to a camp in the Valles region of Jalisco.

“I have been pushing for almost three years for the investigation of these camps. The last I heard about my son was that he had been recruited. There is a witness who says that he was with him for 15 days and it is most likely that he was taken to some camp. The ones they had there, and if they didn't accept to be recruited, they killed them at that moment and my son had already been there for 15 days”.

After the seizure of the narco school in La Estanzuela, he pointed out that this confirms what they have been saying to the authorities for a long time, but no one listens to them.

“We have been pointing out for some time now the existence of these recruitment camps”. The reports they have received anonymously indicate that there are other clandestine camps in the area of Los Camachos, Los Altos, Valle de Guadalupe, Ameca and Tala. These are located in the highlands, where hundreds of people could be held against their will.

“It is a situation that is proliferating thanks to the protection of impunity and corruption in the country, the control of criminal organizations under the protection of the authorities, which is the worst.”

The recent seizure of this forced recruitment school gives Hector Flores hope of finding his son Hector Daniel, who has been missing since May 18. “There is a good chance that they have them working. The bad thing is that, unfortunately, these criminal organizations operate all over the country; they can send them to Zacatecas, Colima, Michoacan, they can be anywhere.”